Stay Ahead with the Latest Employment Law Updates
Join us for an informative and engaging session on the latest developments in Employment Law. This is an essential event for HR professionals, business leaders, and legal practitioners looking to navigate the ever-evolving legal landscape with confidence.
Agenda
8:00AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 – 9:30AM Labour & Employment Law Case Update: A session designed to provide attendees with an understanding of the key recent decisions in the labour and employment law sphere.
9:30 – 10:15AM Recruitment Legal Issues - A Whirlwind Tour: A fast-paced review of the most pressing legal issues in recruitment. From job postings, to inducement, to pre-employment testing, to dealing with falsified credentials, withdrawing offers and everything in between, we’ll cover the latest changes to enable HR professionals to stay ahead of this complex and ever-evolving legal landscape.
10:15-10:30AM Refreshment & Networking Break
10:30-10:50AM Pensions Update: This session will review employees’ rights and entitlements under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 and your obligations as an employer. We will also dive into some of the administrative, budgetary and tax implications of disability top-up payments and discuss how leaves of absence affect pension accrual, including through disability waivers of contributions.
10:50-11:30AM Off Duty Conduct & Inflammatory Social Media Behaviour – What is our business and what is not? What can we do about it? And how do we navigate inflammatory social media behaviour
11:30– 12:00AM Competing Human Rights: Understanding How to Balance the Human Rights Protections of Your Employees
12:00PM Event ends
NEW! Chapter Connectors Program - To foster connection, support, and engagement within the HRPA community, we wish to pair in-person event attendees with experienced member "Connectors".
NEW! Ad-hoc Volunteer Opportunities - Interested in helping as a greeter, registration desk helper, speaker support and/or runner at an upcoming in-person Chapter event.
For both of the above opportunities, you should check of the box during registration but you will also need to login to Volunteer with HRPA and sign up there. Thank you for volunteering to help!
Registration Closes: April 17, 2025 at 8:00AM…or sooner if it sells out!
Registration Difficulties or Questions: Please reach out to Rebecca Lauzon our Specialist, Member Engagement at rlauzon@hrpa.ca